All Things Biden: Is It Over Yet?

[Tero]

You get a catholic president and...

(CNN)The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on Friday proceeded with a plan that would deny communion to public figures who support abortion rights, setting up a potential public rebuke of President Joe Biden.

By a vote of 168 to 55, with six abstentions, the bishops went forward with plans for a report on the meaning of the Eucharist in the church.

[JimC]

Is the Catholic Church in the US fading in numbers, as is happening in Ireland and Australia?

Hopefully, they will soon be an irrelevant ghost of their former power...

[Tero]

They are mostly obedient people, so there is no appeal to be contrary thinkers like Baptists, Trumpsters and libertarians.

Some Catholics are even intellectuals! A dying breed.

[Tero]

Biden only has one German shepherd to attack secret service and visitors anymore:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/19/politics ... index.html

[Brian Peacock]

Good job he didn't have a Welsh shepherd - else it wouldn't be a mauling the Secret Service guys would be dealing with...

[Tero]

NE governor to stop Biden conservation land grab:

“How are you going to get to 30% in the state of Nebraska without major acquisitions of land or some sort of major policy change that’s going to take away people’s private property rights,” Gov. Ricketts said.

Democrat Kleeb said, “Obviously, in Nebraska, we are an ag state and we want to make sure that is still going to be able to be farmed and ranched.”

The governor is also worried that if 30% of land is used for conservation, it’ll increase property taxes in the other 70%.

https://www.1011now.com/2021/06/24/gov- ... 0x30-plan/

[Tero]

Biden may get a trillion..but 2 bills

Biden: 'We have a deal' on infrastructure with bipartisan group of senators

"To answer your direct question, we have a deal," he said.
Though hurdles remain -- it's unclear if the proposal will have enough support from GOP senators or progressive lawmakers to end up as law -- the announced agreement is a significant development that could pave the way for passage of a chunk of Biden's domestic agenda.

Biden said later in the day that he would not sign the bipartisan infrastructure bill unless the investments he has proposed in his American Families Plan, which Democratic leadership plans on passing through the budget reconciliation process, also end up on his desk.
"If this is the only thing that comes to me, I'm not signing it. It's in tandem," Biden said.

A lot of work remains on the policy and drafting side of the proposal. But Biden and his team have grown increasingly bullish on the pathway a bipartisan agreement lays out for moving the full scope of the President's $4 trillion economic agenda.
Many details of the plan remain unclear. But the total cost of the plan is $1.2 trillion over eight years, with $559 billion in new spending, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.

cnn.com/2021/06/24/politics/biden-infrastructure-meeting-senators/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/politics ... index.html

[Tero]

Old white GOP guys willing to compromize with old white Democrat?

[Tero]

Will the GOP pass the smaller bill?

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If they do, Democrats will pass the second bill, which includes the climate stuff. A reconciliation bill which needs 51 votes.

The GOP can go home and boast of their accomplishments, roads and bridges.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Clearly it took a president from the Democratic Party to get something done. During the previous administration these dipshits sat on their thumbs and made 'Infrastructure Week' noises as backup singers for the gormless buffoon in the White House for so long it became a running joke.

Don't worry though, before you know it the US will once again be the land of 'in about two weeks.' I think the new laws the state Republicans are putting in to repress the vote will have the desired effect.

[Tero]

[JimC]

Well past its use-by date...

[Hermit]

Clearly it took a president from the Democratic Party to get something done.

The infrastructure project is decades overdue. The fact that it will likely be implemented is good news. The likelihood that it will mean privatisation by stealth, not so much.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Clearly it took a president from the Democratic Party to get something done.

The infrastructure project is decades overdue. The fact that it will likely be implemented is good news. The likelihood that it will mean privatisation by stealth, not so much.

I agree with your analysis. I've never been thrilled by the Democratic Party and their lip service (occasionally) to a progressive agenda while carrying on with business as usual--toadying for corporate interests. Their policies generally manage to avoid being as overtly detestable as those of the Republicans, which isn't a high bar.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Yeah, I've been bitching about various shitty moves by the US Justice Department (defending the pussy-grabber in a defamation suit for fuck's sake) but will acknowledge something that I approve of.

'Justice Department announces challenge to Georgia's restrictive voting law'

The Justice Department announced Friday that it is suing the state of Georgia over its recently enacted voting restrictions.

"Our complaint alleges that recent changes to Georgia’s election laws were enacted with the purpose of denying or abridging the right of Black Georgians to vote on account of their race or color in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

The move is the first major federal enforcement action around the spate of Republican-led laws that have imposed limits on voting in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s election loss.

The Justice Department is asking the court to strike down parts of the law and require federal observers in Georgia for future elections. The suit also asks the court to require future preclearance for changes to voting laws in Georgia.

The Republican-controlled state government in Georgia imposed a set sweeping new restrictions earlier this year, many of them fueled by Trump's false claims that the 2020 election had been subject to rampant fraud.